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eigners to such important positions demon- 

 strates the broad-mindedness and freedom from 

 prejudice which in part accounts for the high 

 positions that its universities maintain. The 

 creation of chairs devoted to research is also a 

 forward movement in Germany, which it will 

 be necessary for this country to follow. It is 

 certainly a great compliment to the United 

 States that Germany should seek here a pro- 

 fessor for such a chair, more especially when 

 we remember the very great number of chem- 

 ists that are being trained in Germany. We 

 are glad to learn that the president and fellows 

 of Harvard College have taken action leading 

 Professor Richards to remain in this country. 



The Veitch silver medal has been awarded to 

 Mr. Thomas Meehan, of Philadelphia, ' for dis- 

 tinguished services in botany and horticulture.' 

 Mr. Meehan is the third American on whom 

 this medal has been conferred, the others being 

 Professor Charles S. Sargent, of the Arnold 

 Arboretum, and Professor Liberty H. Bailey, 

 of Cornell University. 



President Lotjbet of France has conferred 

 upon President W. E. Harper, of the University 

 of Chicago, the decoration of the Legion of 

 Honor. 



Mr. Marshall H. SAviLLEhad been named 

 Officier d' Academic by the French Govern- 

 ment in recognition of his archeological re- 

 searches in Mexico for the American Museum. 



On the recommendation of the Council of the 

 Royal Collegeof Physicians, England, it has been 

 unanimously resolved " that the Baly Medal 

 be awarded to Frederick William Pavy, M.D., 

 F.R.S., F.R.C.P,, for his researches on 'The 

 Physiology of the Carbohydrates ; their Appli- 

 cation as Food, and Relation to Diabetes,' 1894 ; 

 but more especially for his original investiga- 

 tions on sugar formation in the liver, which he 

 has carried on during the last forty years, and 

 with unabated enthusiasm during the last two 

 years." 



' Dr. Vincent Czerny, the eminent pro- 

 fessor of surgery at the University at Heidel- 

 berg, is on his way to the United States, in 

 order to visit our medical schools. 



We noted recently that a monument to 

 Chevreul had been unveiled in the Court of the 



Museum of Natural History, Paris. We learn 

 from French exchanges that addresses were 

 made on the occasion by M. Edmond Perrier, 

 director of the Museum, by M, Armand Gautier, 

 representing the Acadamy of Sciences and the 

 Academy of Medicine, by M. Arnaud, who in 

 1890 succeeded Chevreul in the chair of organic 

 chemistry at the Museum, by M. David, director 

 of the chemical laboratory of the Gobelin's 

 Manufactory, and by M. Puglier-Conti, vice- 

 president of the Paris municipal council. The 

 marble statue is by M. Fagel, and is erected on 

 a pedestal bearing the inscription : 



CHEVREUL 



MICHEL-EUGENE 



NE A ANGERS LE 31 AOUT 1786 



MORT A PARIS LE 7 AVRIL 1889 



PROFESSEUR DE CHIMIE ORGANIQUE 



1830-1889 



DIRECTEUR DU MUSEUM D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE 



1863-1884 



It is proposed to erect a statue of Pasteur at 

 Marnes, near Saint Cloud, where Pasteur spent 

 the last years of his life. M. Duparquet, 

 mayor of Marnes, is chairman of the executive 

 committee. 



Dr. Henry Benner, professor of mathe- 

 matics at Albion College, was drowned on 

 August 14, in Lake Orion. 



The death is announced of Dr. Domenico 

 Stefanini, professor of bacteriology at the Uni- 

 versity of Pavia, at the age of eighty years ; and 

 of General Venukoff, a Russian geographer and 

 geodesist living at Paris, at the age of seventy- 

 one years. 



The Vienna Academy of Sciences announces 

 that the prize founded by Freiherr von Baum- 

 gartner, will be awarded at the end of 1903 for 

 a research enlarging our knowledge of the in- 

 visible radiations. The value of the prize is 

 2,000 crowns. 



At the meeting of the International Congress 

 of Botanists which opened at Geneva, on 

 August 7, it was voted to establish a Societe 

 Internationale de Botanique, and a series of 

 laws was formulated which will be sent in 

 print to botanists interested. It was decided 

 to purchase the Botanisches Centr-alblatt, includ- 



